The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved along party lines a $44.3 billion discretionary spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in FY ’18, about $200 million more than the Trump administration requested and $1.9 billion higher than the FY ’17 appropriations.
The vote was 30 to 22 in favor of the motion to send the spending bill to the House floor.
The committee rejected by a vote 22 to 30 an amendment by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) that would have redirected proposed funding for new and replacement wall along portions of the southern United States border toward the Coast Guard’s polar icebreaker program. The bill includes $1.6 billion in border wall funding.
Senate appropriators have yet to release their version of the FY ’18 DHS spending bill.